Installing Puppy Linux (Full HDD Install)-Part II

Part 2. Partitioning and Formatting the drive.

Now for the main part of this howto.

Right click the desktop to get the menu up,
now go to System > GParted partition manager
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Next click to highlight where it says unallocated (where it is blue in the picture below)
Then click on New to create a new partition.

Note:
You may already have some partitions created from your previous install,
if so, then for the purpose of this Howto it is probably best to start from scratch.
So select them one at a time (starting with the bottom one) and click Delete.
Eventually you will be left with exactly what you see in the image below, this is the whole drive marked as "unallocated"
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You will get something similar to this:
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Make the partition to the size you wish, as you can see below, i left enough space for the SWAP partition.
For Filesystem you can choose either ext2 or ext3.

If you are wondering what the difference is between the Filesystems,
and would like to know more, please check out the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3


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Click on Add

Once again click to highlight unallocated, then New
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Now create the SWAP partition (be sure to select linux-swap as Filesystem)
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click on Add

Next click on Apply
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And again, click on Apply
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You will now see it Applying pending operations
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When it has finished, click on Close
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Now click to highlight /dev/hda1
then RIGHT click and select Manage Flags.
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Now click to select boot.
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when its ready click on Close.

Things should now look something like this.
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If so, you can now close GParted, we are finished with it.

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